CCP Fozzie requested players to give ideas about more mobile structures. The forum already has lot of good ideas. And zillions of stupid ones, half-screen quotes and other nonsense. I wish they could afford more moderators.

So hereby I introduce a genius idea, the Mobile Vending Machine. Wait, Fozzie mentioned it in his opening post? Well, I’m not sure he was serious, because it’s actually great. But it should be able to do much more than simply sell mining crystals in a belt.

Like, buying ore. The structure is player owned and only he can make orders in it, according to some new trading skill. Others can complete the orders. Not too many orders of course, like 20 buy, 20 sell with maxed skill, and only one structure per player to avoid overloading the market interface. It has a beacon on the overview as it’s openly broadcasting its orders, everyone can find it.

By accessing it, you can buy items it sells and sell to its buy orders from your cargohold. Now let’s see its own cargohold. To be any useful, it must have huge cargohold that makes scooping impossible. I mean if you use it to buy ore in a belt, even a million m3 is filled in 11 Hulk-hours, so a mining fleet quickly renders it unusable. Also if you’d try to sell ship hulls, it wouldn’t work. So scooping is out of question, if you deploy it, it stays until you either abandon it or someone destroys it. The same reinforcement method applies as the depot and it stops trading while reinforced, but the contents can be removed. It has a fuel bay where it takes cap booster 800 charges, one per hour, housing only 100. If it’s out of fuel, it loses its reinforcement ability and also disappears next downtime. I think 10M m3 cargohold is enough.

To buy something, it must fit in your cargohold, with one exception: if you are in a pod, you can buy a ship hull and you get it assembled and you boarding it.

While the Mobile Vending Machine can be deployed in a belt to sell mining crystals and buy Ore, its most important feature is that it can be deployed under a POS shield, acting as a trading module for WH players. It would be revolutionary in W-space, allowing players to use formal methods of exchanging goods instead of using commonly available hangars and hope no one steals it. You could set up an ammo, fitting and small-ship store for your corp or buy their salvage, PI and ore and when you log in, just empty the cargo into your freighter and off you go down the chain to Jita.

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Kweetniet

There’s stations for selling stuff. You buy it and sell it there. Otherwise you use couriers.
Just another WOW nerd wanting instant gratification. Just buy 10000 GTC and sell it and you’re done, EVE won and go back to Wow.

I’ve told you guys before, all of Goblins articles are a troll. You just miss it cos he writes an article rather then a comment. I’m the biggest troll in the history of EvE News, in the comments section, I should know.

Well, yeah theres all those stations out in Wspace. for buying, selling, and creating contracts….this might be GGs first almoat conceptually sound idea. Almost… but just in case i call the name: Contract Origination & Interchange Nexus

Because removing player interaction and handing it all over to fucking modules is a great plan. No longer do you need a noob in a badger to haul your ore from the belt, oh no no, you just dump it all in a fucking isk machine and keep on botting.

Goblin, I have better idea for you: When your character warps to the belt all asteroids are automatically mined within 2 seconds, automatically delivered to trade hub, sold and isk transferred to your wallet. Dude, wake the fuck up. This is not WOW PVE server, this game is more about misery, suffering, tears and butthurt rather then pink ponies and carebears in empire. Once again this game is about destruction. If you are lazy anough to initiate warp from belt to station then it’s your problem.

As for your “While the Mobile Vending Machine can be deployed in a belt to sell mining crystals and buy Ore, its most important feature is that it can be deployed under a POS shield, acting as a trading module for WH players.” – I don’t really know what game do YOU play, but in EVE that we play WH corps do not trade goods between each other, we prefer to blow each other up. Every time an exit in WH pops up please take combat ships and search for something to kill next door.

Basically idea you call “great” is utter shit. Please do us all a favor and stop posting!! Or do favor to humanity and go drink some poison.

The last several Glevon Articles have had my reply/response at the top (and thanks for all the votes guys…really)…but today I’m just not feeling it. A night of Taco Bell and Bronchitis has taken it out of me…

So I’m down for requests….what kind of “reply” should I toss his way?…Song?…Poem?…haiku?…

Also consider the giant waste of space commonly known as The Great Wildlands. It’s NPC null so you can’t build stations, but the all of 3 stations that exist in the region are all in one place, leaving massive areas of ridiculous nothing that may see zero jumps for days. Even though the space is bad null, a station-like trading module would at least allow scrubs to move in and claim a plot of land for themselves.

Oh, sorry, Goblin said something so I’m only supposed to shit post right guys?

That post title was like a road traffic fatality… You know it’s going to be terrible. Impossible to unread but still I made it through a paragraph before coming to say : Bobmon, Riv, pls cancel this fool.

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